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Hundreds of people stood in line outside immigration courts in cities across the country on Halloween for what appeared to be a trick: the date on their notices said October 31, 2018, but the immigration courts did not know they were coming.
People who came to the United States without documentation as children and have been here ever since are commonly referred to as “Dreamers,” based on never-passed proposals in Congress called the DREAM Act that would have provided similar protections for young immigrants.
Liliana Barrios was working in a California bakery in July and facing possible deportation when she got a call from her immigration attorney with some good news.
About 25 people gathered at Wheelock Park in Keene Sunday afternoon to celebrate the release of Eleazar Lopez Ayala, an undocumented Honduran immigrant living in Manchester who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the threat of deportation for nine months.
Almost everyone in this country admits that our current immigration system is broken. But whether our reforms should be based on compassion or pragmatism is another story.
